AKAM 134

Tiṇai:

Author:

cīttalaiccāttaṉār

Translation:

V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1975) [IFP, unpublished]

Original MS location:

IFP Library [TA LIT-CL 180 (1)(2)(3)]

Original data entry (VYAPTI format):

Ramya (1999-2000, IFP)

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(1-6) The sylvan region appearing beautiful after rains, and cochineal crawls and spreads amidst flowers of iron wood tree (காயாம்பூ) and appears like a portrait drawn by a consummate artist

(7-9) talaivaṉ requesting the charioteer not to apply the speers and leave the horses to their usual gait

(10-14) talaivaṉ fearing that hindrance could be caused to of the stag and female deer at midnight.

Colophon(s):

The talaimakaṉ who was returning after finishing his duty spoke to the charioteer.

Variant reading வினைமுற்றி மறுத்தராநின்ற; the meaning is the same

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Variant readings:

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Notes:

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• Charioteer (9)!
• Please drive the horses without wounding ((them)) by applying the spurs (9)
• so that they may go slowly with their legs equal to one another (8)
• which usually gallop, and keep rhythmic pace (7),
• in the sylvan region of red soil (6)
• That region appears like a beautiful portrait executed exquisitely by a consummate artist, (5-6)
• because the flowers of arabian jasmine (முல்லைமலர்கள்) that slip off that creeper and drop on the molucca beans creepers and in between the beautiful flowers of iron wood tree (காயாமலர்) which resemble sapphire, the cochineals of red back, crawl and spread themselves (3-5),
• as the dark clouds full of water have ushered in the rainy season and poured their water without fail, the forest puts forth a beautiful appearance (1-2)
• If the sound of the chariot to which our galloping horses are attached (13)
• is heard by the stag which has twisted horns which resemble the stalk (11)
• from which even the downward-looking buds too had dropped in addition to the big petals of the flower clusters of plaintain (9)
• which dropped one after another after maturing (10),
• and which is in company of its beautiful female with well-shaped legs in the state of mating out of love, (12)
• will it be possible for them to have union at midnight ? (14)

வலவ(9)! தேரொலி கேட்பின்(13) ஏற்றொடு(11) பிணையின்(12) நடு நாள் கூட்டம் ஆகலும் உண்டே? (14)? (ஆகாது ஆகலின்) புறவின்கண்(6) கலிமாத்(7) தாளிணை மெல்ல ஒதுங்க(8) இடிமறந்து ஏமதி(9).

• .3. மணிமலர்ப்பூவை
• .9. தே குமதி.
• .14. ஆகலு முண்டோ.

Notes : The commentator has added கழல் with வீ and has given the meaning as the flowers that drop from arabian jasmine. But I have taken it as a noun to mean the creeper of molluca beans and taken முல்லை வீ together, meaning the flowers of arabian jasmine.